The New Zealand: Journal of the Polynesian Society

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The Journal of Polynesian Society was started during one of the last series of Maori Wars beginning with high expectations to educate themselves on the ancient Pacific and Asia Pacific cultures. The reasons for its beginnings though are less well known, with many historians who say the Journal's history should be taken into account before relying on it as an educational resource on Polynesian history. Many an amateur Anthropologist, self-proclaimed academic, or Crown employed New Zealand academic with an aversion to tropical climate, fame-seeking author funded by a religious interest, or nationalist washing ethnographic radical, have had their analysis and theory put into words in the New Zealand Journal. Primarily it's original purpose was to be a tactical resource for foreign agenda into the region. The Journal was not created by a Polynesian Society of authors and researchers agree the "JPS" publishing group remains a misleading name.

One founding member Edward Tregear, born 1846 of England wrote the book "The Aryan Maori" in 1885, which proposed a theory that the Maori were Caucasian in origin because of the Maori Aryanized stature and warring nature, and that British were "reuniting with a distant bloodline" with ancient ancestorial connections. Edward Tregear was implying of course that they themselves, the British, were born of the White Aryan Race. According to an 'Anglo' resource, Mr. Edward Tregear was well regarded in British academic circles and given fellowships to the British Royal Geographical Society and the British Royal Historical Society, however his schooling background can not be confirmed. Tregear gained footing in New Zealand politics for his racial and Imperial stances to then reform a New Zealand Government through a militant left-wing Party and much later planted into the Wellington City Council.

The second founding member Stephenson Percy Smith, was an immigrant English militia-man who had joined illegal New Zealand militia efforts, not even a legal regular British soldier, and fought in part of the Maori Wars. His written theory proposed a single "Great Fleet" of ships colonized Aotearoa filled with Maori from an ancient homeland, a man who had most likely stolen the theory from an allied Maori sitting, camp talk, of myths-and-tales.

Pacific Historian "I've read some its shocking theories on subjects, it's hard to imagine anything to be taken seriously from England and New Zealand after reading some of those works"

"Auckland New Zealand since the 1800s has had the worst reputation in the Pacific, once deemed -The Hellhole of the Pacific-, known for its noble savage indigenous Maori population, who mixed with an English-Pirate n' Penal-Aussie population, smuggling slaves, prostitutes, drugs, and guns. New Zealand History as it is today is hardly trustworthy, useful for insight, but not worth the paper its printed on. History written during Maori Wars in the mid 1800s, started by the very foreign opponents in the War, either to uplift the New Zealand national image, spread Propaganda, or to openly spy on Asia Pacific and Asian Pacific Polynesian cultures"

The Journal of the Polynesian Society although a rich repository of insight from the 1800-1900s, it is still a foreign British journal of studies created in New Zealand to gather information on Asia Pacific and the Asia Pacific Polynesian Indigenous.

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